object-oriented-programming-antipattern

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The object-oriented-programming antipattern is the excessive / unnecessary use of object-oriented-programming (OOP) and OOP techniques when simple procedural functions would have sufficed, with less overhead, fewer files to navigate around, fewer indirections to follow while debugging, etc.

Articles and references

• cat -v harmful stuff: Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful
• fake plt nerd girl ‏@morganastra “object orientation is an elaborate web of design traps with something that looks like a computation model woven between them as bait”
• All evidence points to OOP being bullshit

See Also

• architecture astronomy
• database-antipattern
• https://medium.com/@cscalfani/goodbye-object-oriented-programming-a59cda4c0e53
• architecture astronomy
• https://phpthewrongway.com/
• Article describing some history and (bad) programming/corporate culture effects of OOP: https://web.archive.org/web/20121214131923/http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-shop-politics
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